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What is a Child Insurance Plan?
Hence, a child insurance plan is a kind of investment cum insurance plan that ensures financial security to fulfil your child’s long-term educational goals. You can utilize the maturity value of a child insurance plan to spend on various goals such as sending your ward abroad for higher studies, or his/her marriage.
Wrapping Up
Preparing for your child’s future in the present era has become a necessity. With the steep rise in education costs, relying solely on savings may not be enough. A child insurance plan provides a structured way to save for long-term goals and also ensures your child’s dreams remain protected, even if life takes an unexpected turn.
Different Types of Child Insurance Plans
Before we look at how child plans work we need to know the different child plan options you have. The majority of child education plans fall into three different categories given below:
Types of Child Insurance Plans
There are 3 broad categories of a child's education plan:
Different Types of Child Insurance Plans
This way, you can manipulate all the market speculations to your utmost financial gains. Hence, it’s a truly investor-friendly plan. Moreover, the ULIP child plan will offer you loyalty bonuses for your long-term continuation with your policy. All the gains from a ULIP plan are tax-exempt unless the annual premium goes beyond Rs 2.5 lakhs.
Types of Child Insurance Plans
ULIP-based Child Education Plan: If your motive is to get a high growth rate and more flexibility for your portfolio, then you can go with the ULIP-based Child Education Plan. These are investment plans that allow you to invest as per your investment risk appetite. You can choose the type and ratio of your investment between equity, debt, mutual funds, and hybrid funds. Besides, you can rearrange your portfolio with an auto-rebalancing strategy if you wish to use market fluctuations to your benefit. The ULIP-based Child Education Plans additionally offer extra loyalty bonuses if you continue with your policy in the long term.
How do Child Insurance Plans Work?
Maturity Benefits: On the basis of the type of child insurance plan you have taken, you will get different types of maturity benefits: Endowment Plans give you a certain maturity value when your policy ends along with the guaranteed accrued bonuses. These include participating bonuses as well as loyalty bonuses that will be paid to you for your long-term continuance in the policy. A Moneyback Child Plan also offers bonuses along with the maturity value, but these are not guaranteed bonuses. However, the benefit of a money-back child plan is that it gives you regular pay outs of your sum assured in the form of cash back. On the other hand, a ULIP can offer you multiple investment options where you can invest and grow your money at a higher compounding rate. You can invest easily in equity funds and automatically manage your portfolio . Investing for more than 10 years in equity funds in a ULIP can add good value to your portfolio if you manage your risk well. You can even rearrange your portfolio as per your choice.
Types of Child Insurance Plans
Moneyback Child Plans: If you wish to receive certain amounts at various stages of your child’s growth, the money-back child education plan is the best option. It offers fixed instalments of your sum assured at regular intervals as selected by you in the form of cashbacks. Such child insurance plans are also suitable if you need a certain amount over multiple years of your child’s education. For example, a 5-year integrated MBA program involves payment of an annual examination fee. Apart from that, money-back child plans are participating plans, i.e., they offer bonuses to you that add to your maturity amount.